LadyCrimson

Yes. :/ Guess I'll continue to hope for a patch then.

In all honesty, I don't really know how people survive on entry-level retailish jobs while trying to do something like school, either...combine increased living costs with increased education costs and it at least feels like it must be harder now than when I was 20ish. But I suppose it also depends greatly on where you live. I can't imagine anyone here being able to live on their own on $9-10/hr w/out at least one roommate to share rent. Perhaps a job with tips - waiters or food delivery etc. - would often mean more average income per hour and make it a bit easier? And this morning I woke up and started planning some trips to home improvement stores for some stuff I'm working on...but when I walked outside I realized hubby had taken my car to work again, so here I am. One day it'd be nice if he had a vehicle I could actually drive, too.

Some review I read mentioned that aspect, which is the main reason I haven't rushed out to buy it like I thought I would. Does it interfere with exploration/colony fun horribly, where it becomes tedious to have to 'go home' all the time? I guess I'm hoping there'll be a patch before too long that allows you set a slower rate for those, or something...I prefer my sim/building type games to allow me to follow my own pace at least most of the time, rather than someone else's pace most of the time.

Perhaps it's a way to transition from Arnie's familiar-faced Terminator to the "new guys" face...I mean, if you're going to have a guy who looks kinda like Arnie play Arnie's famous role, seems sensible to have an early plot cameo to help audiences accept someone else in the role...maybe? I had no clue Christian Bale was going to be John Connor. That increases the odds that I'll see this new Terminator film by, oh, 6%, for a grand total of a 13% chance.

It's called multiple roommates, top ramen/peanut butter/spaghetti till you puke, and that free sofabed & wobbly table you picked up from the sidewalk/relatives.

Playing with the table-saw. Feeling glad it's fall-cool and cloudy but hoping it won't actually rain for another month or two yet...

I don't think I could remember who was my very first, but I started having vague crushes in 1st or 2nd grade. Kids from school, older guys from youth camps and all that. By 5th and 6th grade I was in a state of constant girly-"crush." :D

Diablo1, Diablo2, Kotor2, Caesar3, Caesar4, Dungeon Keeper/Deeper Dungeons, DungenKeeper2, Titan Quest/Immortal Throne, and WoW+WotLK beta. So 9 at the moment...when I get around to buying Spore (haven't yet...) it'll be 10. Most games don't stay on my hard drive longer than 6 months at a time. Games that stay installed "forever" are either my core fave older single-player games that I immediately install every time I reformat/change pc's etc. or games where re-installing whenever I feel like re-play/re-joining would be a serious pain in the arse (like WoW w/its many/huge patches). P.S. I have the hd space for a lot more...but I have a personal quirk about running a PC with too full of a hd....

12 Angry Men (Henry Fonda) - One of my favorite classic flicks for 10 bucks. I was happy.

All right, why not. I always have bangs on my forehead, so I tried to find a pic where they wouldn't get in the way much. The 50's ones seem to distort the shape of your face a lot more than the others. I like the 'fro and the 1984 one. I didn't wear my hair like that in '84, but maybe I should have. Then I decided to load up a pic where I'm making an awful face...what I call my "Mr. Sulu's love-child" expression...they were actually more hilarious, imo...

Not a movie, but I've been catching up w/last season's Ugly Betty (first time I've watched it). Weird show, but I like it. Betty should dump her boyfriend and get with the sandwich shop dude...

We looked at some used vans for hubby. One was tricked out with a desk, powerstrip, shelves, a power generator, and about 8 outlets attached to the outside of the van. Great for a moving office I guess. It was nutty. It was a little too big, however.

Death Knights are fun.

I would be playing the WoW beta, if the last build patch yesterday hadn't totally fubar'd the ability to stay logged into the server for more than 3 minutes. So instead...maybe I'll get Spore this evening....tho from the early reviews, it doesn't appear to be quite the game I had originally envisioned.

I hate tabs. No logical reason, I just do. But I love Firefox...I don't see much reason to switch to Chrome...not yet anyway. And I often have 15-20 windows open during a session, because I prefer having the windows still open to view vs having to press "back" 20 times if I think "now what did that other page say?"...hubby's the one w/the 30-40 windows open. Work research and stuff.

Ohhhh....the people who've been here a long time will know what I'll say, right? Dungeon Keeper1 Sure it's not all pretty like today's intros...but the fun metal tune and the trolls, man, the trolls!

I didn't know where to put this - it's not a video, music, or movie. Just a little website with a flash-created spider you can "play" with. The purpose is to try and make as realistic a spider as they could in flash. I think it's awesome. http://www.onemotion.com/flash/spider/ The other thing I did today - watch hubby try to fix the toilet. It works now, but not sure if it'll stay that way. It may be about plumber-time....again. Older houses and plumbing...sigh. Plus I played more WotLK beta. Death Knights are so much fun...in fact, they're too fun. They'll be nerfed a lot before release, I'm sure. heh

Hurlshot's not too far away from us, and for the area he's correct. There's not many who can manage to save up 20%, let alone 30% (at least for their first house) entirely on their own. Most people we've known who managed to buy (when we couldn't) had help from their families. We absolutely hate being in debt - and refused to touch those hinky loans - so I understand that POV...and that's one reason we didn't buy condos in our 20's etc. Like many others, boy do we regret that now, haha. The rent-while-you-save thing seemed fine when we were in our 20's...not so much in our late 30's/early 40's w/time running out and watching inflation+the house prices skyrocket almost out of our reach despite savings and higher income brackets. Our house is small, but eventually we could either add-on and it'd be awesome, or sell it and move on. I think it'll work out for us a lot better in the long run. We do hate the mortgage, tho. :D

She sounds young and unsure of what she wants in a relationship. There's also always the possibility of undiscovered mood disorder issues that complicate her decisions/actions. She could simply be addicted to the "grass is greener" syndrome. Or she may be the devil incarnate. Some people are a lot slower than others to "grow up" re: relationships or even know if they really want one, and this can and does affect their earlier relationships like gangbusters, including immature or inexplicable (to "us", and maybe even to them) behavior, leaving confusion all over the place. This applies to men as well as women. That doesn't make it feel any better, tho, when you're in the middle of it. My sympathies. @ theslug - Neither men or women have some kind of monopoly on being able to "figure themselves out."

I don't know what you're talking about. Now excuse me as I go watch some HD-HBO while I'm waiting for my humongous download to finish.

Bridge to Terabithia (2007) ... despite some nice performances by the young actors, most of the movie I felt pretty bored. The ending was decent/sad, but that's about it. Haven't read the book. I guess I've lost a lot of the child-within or something...it just didn't grab me. Although it did make me recall some childhood memories of friends and I playing at Superfriends and the like.

Ive been wondering the same thing. My cable internet provider (Comcast) is instituting a 250GB per month cap before you have to pay extra. I play WoW quite a bit and am curious how much juice that game sucks. I looked at my bill last night and it doesnt detail my monthy usage, which makes sense seeing as how there has never been a limit before, but still. Quick search shows that it's probably around 10-20mb/hour of play. Not enough that I think you should really be worried about with a 250GB cap. Thanks for looking that up. *does some quick math* So, 20mb/hour = 50hours/GB = 12,500hours/250GB cap? Someone else I know who has lived with severe dorm-room limits thought playing D2 non-stop for 24 hours might be 50Mb. Other people have tried things like watching a few streaming video/listening to streaming audio, then downloading some large files etc. and reported figures like 2-5GB for an hour or two of such "common" activity. If you're a big gamer who downloads tons of big game patches/online-bought games every month on top of that, it could be a problem. But otherwise, I think most people won't have any problems at all w/Comcasts cap. Some other companies, however, have - or are proposing - much lower caps...like under 50GB. I'd hanker a guess that between hubby's work stuff and my internet surfing/gaming, we might suck up close to 100GB a month, but it's really hard to estimate and I could be way off either way. I definitely think any company w/a cap should include a bandwidth usage meter w/their package.

It's sometimes interesting, as a woman who fits very few of the female stereotypes, to read this forum. Perhaps I'm really a man!

Hope it's nothing serious and just flu. Strange illness/symptoms are always disconcerting. But glad the doctor wanted to play it safe...I like doctors like that.

Obviously, basic gameplay hasn't changed, but there's tons of changes to the way skills/trees work, pets work, buffs/raid-stacking works...I literally feel like I have to learn how to play my hunter all over again. It's not just altering a skill or two...it's literally the whole tree/s, with new skills, re-arrangement of skills on the tree, and what they do. Beyond that ... I haven't been very impressed with the new land...w/BC, the 'new areas' seemed cool and interesting compared to the pre-BC areas, but Northrend's first area, at least, is really unexciting. I'm sure it'll get better later. I hope.